Frauke Scheunemann was born in Dusseldorf in 1969. She received a doctorate in law, then completed her training at North German Broadcasting and worked as a journalist and press spokesperson. She has been writing full time since 2002, and has published a series of highly successful novels together with her sister, Wiebke Lorenz, under the collective pseudonym of "Anne Hertz." Frauke Scheunemann lives with her husband and their four children in an old parsonage in Hamburg.